The biggest difficulty was in making a comic that reads from right to left. It’s counter intuitive for sure. Also pretty much all of the internet, from code-writing to browser rendering, is based on top-right orientation. So I employed a few tricks back then to make it work.

Unfortunately, most of the html I used to render the comic in 2003 is now outdated and broke in a modern browser. Thanks to Steve Harrison for helping me recreate the original reading experience for current web standards.

The comic itself, like each installment in the series, also employs some form of interactivity. The end of “Left” allows the reader to submit an email with their reaction,which I would collect on an attached page for the reader to look at. Unfortunately, all of those initial reactions have been lost, so even though it’s been recreated, it lies empty. Please feel free to read the comic and let me know what you think.

Hypercomics.net began years ago in the golden age of webcomic creation. Back then, in the primordial bubbling ooze of the internet, the site was dedicated to formalism and experimentation in a digital environment.
It has been a portfolio, a collective showcase, and a group blog, all dedicated to raising the awareness of online storytelling and multiple-path narration.
This recent incarnation finds hypercomics.net working as a repository for the work of it’s founder, Neal Von Flue.